Focus-On-Your-Food Charger

A tabletop wireless charging box designed to align a restaurant's wish—"please savor the food instead of looking at your phone"—with the customer's constant need for battery power.

Trading Screen Time for Battery Life

Instead of enforcing an outright ban on smartphone use, this box creates a mechanism that encourages diners to focus on their meal by offering a charge in return.

• Concealed to Charge: A wireless charging pad is tucked deep inside a wooden tunnel structure; to begin charging, the phone must be pushed completely inside until the screen is hidden from view.
• Low-Cost Build: Built using basic wood scraps and an inexpensive off-the-shelf Qi charging pad, keeping the barrier to entry low for casual diners or ramen shops.

An experiment in using physical form rather than rigid rules to gently nudge human behavior.